Re: Invade wikipedia!

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Feb 24, 4:08 pm, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> On Feb 24, 11:33 pm, "(see below)" <yaldni...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 24/02/2009 23:28, in article
> > 9f2553d3-66f5-4708-a237-bfef1d840...@v42g2000yqj.googlegroups.com, "Martin"
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> > <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > > Sorry my made up example doesn't cut mustard! Does this make it any
> > > clearer? :-)
>
> > > ------------------------
> > > -- Calculate_Velocity --
> > > ------------------------
>
> > > procedure Calculate_Velocity
> > >              (Speed    :     Meters_Per_Second;
> > >               Time     :     Seconds;
> > >               Velocity : out Meters_Per_Second_Per_Second);
>
> > Nope!
> > The reason why is left as an exercise for the student. 8-)
>
> Hmmm, the tautology? I'm using C too much these days...

Nope, that wasn't it.  Actually, I think Calculate_Velocity would look
a bit better and make things a bit clearer for the reader at the point
of the call---assuming the name wasn't a lie and that the velocity was
what it was actually computing...  :)

                               -- Adam


> ---------------
> -- Calculate --
> ---------------
>
> procedure Calculate (Speed    :     Meters_Per_Second;
>                      Time     :     Seconds;
>                      Velocity : out Meters_Per_Second_Per_Second);